Acording to Lloyd, the player should work with drives up to at least 32 gig. 
I'm using a 2 gig drive that works great and don't really need anything 
bigger for that player.  BTW, Don't you have to put each book into it's own 
folder on the drive?  I have 4 different folders on my thumb drive named 1 
through 4 and I put a book into each one of them.  When I want to delete a 
book I just select all the files in the apropriate folder and delete them. 
Lou
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From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player


> They do have an apparently undocumented limit.  They recommend no larger
> than a 2Gb drive I think, and we put 20 books on an 8Gig drive and my wife
> told me it only recognized the first four.
>
> You can get a narrower usb drive in the front of the player, where the
> cartridge normally goes, it is the same type of USB connection.  YOu just
> have to maneuver it a bit.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>
>
>> Steve,
>>
>> I'm not aware of any limit as to the number of books the player will
>> recognize as long as there's space available on the medium.  Depending on
>> the size of the book, I get seven or eight books onto a 1GB cartridge,
>> which
>> seems like enough since I can only read one book at a time.  I don't like
>> the idea of the USB thumb drive sticking out of the side of the machine,
>> so
>> I prefer the cartridges for that reason.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 15:04
>> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>>
>>
>>>I thought they were selling the cartridges, but I just use a regular USB
>>> thumb drive.
>>>
>>> It appears as though the player won't recognize more than a few books on
>>> the
>>> USB drive, so a small one like 2GB would be plenty.  You can get those
>>> for
>>> probably $15 or less on line from places like Newegg or Amazon.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:51 PM
>>> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>>>
>>>
>>>> True, but I don't think you can get the cable from APH.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Terri Pannett" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 14:24
>>>> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I made an error in my first post.  The drive is a usb hard drive.
>>>>>
>>>>> How many books can you store on a cartridge?  Looks like APH's
>>>>> cartridges
>>>>> are less expensive than Adaptive Technologies and they have more 
>>>>> space.
>>>>>
>>>>> Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
>>>>>
>>>